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Health and Social Care Bill

My Lords, the noble Earl has set out the case very clearly, but I wanted to follow through briefly on the area of accountability. The noble Earl said that some care homes or establishments might be too busy to make checks. Organisations that are accountable for running a service must have the time to carry out appropriate checks. That means that there is probably a double set of checks on the agency supplying the person, but also on those who are using the services. The noble Earl has put his finger on exactly the right point in the third category he mentions, where people are being supplied to individuals and there appears to be a real gap in regulation. That is exactly where there needs to be regulation.